Chambers Faces Grand Jury Again In Hiss Espionage Case
Washington AP The House unamerican activities committee reopens hearings naming Sumner Welles as a witness. Mundt leads the probe while Stripling and Nixon join the sessions as witnesses. Whittaker Chambers testifies before a federal grand jury amid renewed allegations that Alger Hiss passed restricted documents to a Russian agent.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sumner Welles
Mundt
R-Sd
Nixon
R-Cal
Robert E. Stripling
Stripling
Welles
Chambers
Grand Jury
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Maryland
House Committee
House
John Rankin
D-Miss
U. S
Berlin Elects Ernst Reuter Lord Mayor for Term
Berlin moves to install Ernst Reuter 58 a former Communist turned anti Soviet leader as lord mayor to finish the current term. The East West split in the Bewag power company divided staff with 800 reporting to a western office while 400 remained in the Russian sector amid fears of reprisals.
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Berlin
Ernst Reuter
City Assembly
Bewag
Reuter
Russia
der Sozialdemokrat
Nationalist government faces losing battle says ex aide
Col. M. Thomas Tachous, former secretary to Chiang Kai-Shek, told the Springfield Rotary Club that China’s Nationalist government has lost mass support and will fight a losing battle unless policies change. He warned that additional U. S. aid would not halt the civil war or the Communist advance.
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Springfield
China
Col. M. Thomas Tachous
Chiang Kai-Shek
Rotary Club
U. S
Fremont Fire Kills 34 Year Old Fireman at Major Department Store
A Fremont firefighter died after a fall during battles to contain a spectacular blaze that destroyed Joseph's department store, the citys largest brick block. The $500000 loss included water damage to several shops as firefighters from nearby towns aided the effort. The cause was believed electrical and a rekindled fire occurred in the third story of an adjoining building.
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Fremont, O
Fremont
George Kattner
Fremont Memorial Hospital
Joseph's
Louis Danziger
Danziger
Clyde
Sandusky
Port Clinton
Oak Harbor
Gibsonburg
Fostoria
Tiffin
T. A. Bintz Company
Ladies Wearing
Miller-Jones Shoe Store
Nobil’s Shoe Store
S. S. Kresge’s
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Building
A massive fire at the International Nickel Company smelter in Copper Cliff Ontario destroyed the main chemical building. Damage was estimated at 1,000,000 dollars with no injuries reported.
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Copper Cliff
Ont
Canadian Industries Limited
International Nickel Company Smelter
Canton council limits gas wells on park land after hours
The Canton Ohio city council barred drilling on city park land from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and ordered future wells set at least 150 feet from any public street, according to the AP report.
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Canton
War Lords Get Another Lease on Life
The Supreme Court split five to four on whether it can review sentences from the Tokyo war crimes tribunal and the President’s conduct abroad. Justice Jackson cast the decisive vote, hoping fuller argument will sway justices on review of external affairs power. The case affects seven former Japanese warlords awaiting fate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
International Court
Tokyo
Robert H. Jackson
Germany
Jackson
Nuernberg
Douglas MacArthur
Kenji Doihara
China
Manchuria
Koku Hirota
Hideki Tojo
Errol Flynn Arrested After Alleged Kicking Incident
New York AP Errol Flynn 38 was arrested at 2 a.m. after allegedly kicking a patrolman in a police station during an argument with two radio patrolmen and a taxi driver. Flynn and companion Robert Graham Wahn 36 were released on $500 bail each for magistrate court hearings later today.
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New York
Errol Flynn
Flynn
Leutenant
Robert Graham Wahn
Wahn
John Perona
el Morocco
German Girl Returns Home To Discuss Marriage
A 19 year old German woman Elizabeth Sauer traveling to Pittsburgh to wed Ralph Gaber plans to return to Kassel to seek her parents permission before marrying his brother Karl said the couple fell in love but parental consent is required. Elizabeth will fly home December 21 to spend Christmas with her parents and Karl hopes for eventual consent allowing their marriage to proceed.
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Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Sauer
Kassel
Germany
Ralph Gaber
U. S. Army
Gaber
Elizabeth
Ralph
Karl
Survivors Rescued From C-54 Crash After 40 Hour Sea Hunt
Thirty three Air Force personnel were rescued by the escort carrier Rendova after a 40 hour air sea search 1200 miles southwest of Honolulu. Two life rafts held men as sharks circled while they rationed water and waited for a plane sighting. Four crew were listed as dead.
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Leif Erickson
Honolulu
Air Force
Pilot Relates Pacific Crash Rescue Of 33 Survivors
Lt Col William R Calhoun details a C-54 ditching 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu. Thirty three survivors waited on life rafts for rescue by the escort carrier Rendova after the mid Pacific crash that left 37 aboard. Sharks neared the rafts as rescuers closed in and two life rafts carried seven men each.
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Navy
Rendova
Air Force
Joseph L. Smith Stockton
Kans
William A. Colvin, Jr
Cross City
Fla
Robert C. Harrell
Milledgeville
Charles T. Millapaugh
Port Jervis
N. Y
Honolulu
William R. Calhoun
Birmingham
Ala
Calhoun
L. R. Johnson
Minneapolis
James M. Lane
Mid- Pacific
Airforce
Pacific
Col. Calhoun
Hungarian envoy executed for treason in Budapest
Victor Csornosky, son-in-law of former Hungarian president Zoltan Tildy, was hanged by a Hungarian people's court for traitorous activities with U S and British agents. The 29 year old former Hungary envoy to Egypt and former diplomat in Washington was convicted on crimes against the people and black market currency dealings.
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London
Victor Csornoky
Zoltan Tildy
Tanjug
Budapest
Csornosky
Hungary
Egypt
Washington
People's Court
U. S
Man Found Dead Along Ohio River Shore
Albert Turnstall tentatively identified man found along the Ohio River shore in Cincinnati. William Beal, 10, of Newport Kentucky, told police he saw the man in the same spot Saturday and thought he slept. Coroner Dr Leo Sauter said death appeared due to exposure.
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Cincinnati
Albert Turnstall
Ohio River
William Beal
Newport
Leo Sauter
Chinese admit encirclement of 110000 Nationalist troops southwest Suchow
Chinese government sources said Communist forces trapped about 110,000 Nationalist troops on a front eight miles long and five miles deep southwest of Suchow in central China. Chen Yi led eight to nine red columns completing the encirclement as Nationalists evacuated Suchow and towns to the north.
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Nanking
China
Central China Front
Suchow
Chen Yi
Peiping
Twelfth Army Group
Oosterbaan Selected Coach Of Year
Bennie G. Oosterbaan head coach at Michigan in his first year was named coach of the year in the World Telegram poll. He led the Wolverines to a perfect season and a Western Conference title, receiving 61 first place votes.
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NEW York
Bennie G. Oosterbaan
Michigan
Worl Telegram
Oosterbaan
Wolverines
Herbert O
Fritz) Crisler
Crisler
Lynn Waldorf
California
Bob Voights
Northwestern
Waldorf
Matty Bell
Southern Methodist
Tuss McLaughry
Dartmouth
Charles Wilkinson
Oklahoma
Frank Leahy
Notre Dame
Bob Higgins
Penn State
Carl Snavely
North Carolina
Dayton businessman among three found dead in plane wreck
A Dayton General Motors Aero Products Division official W J Blanchard 48 and two Dayton women Miss Vivian Johnson 29 and Miss Betty Charles 28 were found dead in a Navion crash near Columbus Ohio. The wreckage was located by two boys in a cornfield about 10 miles west of Columbus after a four state search. The coroner said the victims died about 24 hours earlier with evidence of an attempted forced landing and the plane bouncing through trees before overturning.
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Columbus, O
Dayton
Here
Jamestown
N. Y
W. J. Blanchard
General Motors’ Aero Products
Vivian Johnson
Betty Charles
Columbus
Robert A. Evans
Evans
Blanchard
Famed Violin Changes Hands In Historic Sale
New York violinist David Larser bought the Lamoureux Stradivarius from Efrem Zimbalist in Philadelphia. The instrument, valued at about 85 000 dollars, was described as one of the 12 finest Stradivarius violins. Zimbalist had owned it since 1925 and it once belonged to conductor Charles Lamoureux.
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Philadelphia
New York
Lamoureux
Stradivarius
David Larser
Efrem Zimbalist
Sarser
Zimbalist
Curtis Institute of Music
Charles Lamoureux
Ohio Democrats Begin To Map Their Strategy
In Columbus Democratic caucuses chose Margaret A. Mahoney of Cleveland as Senate majority floor leader for the 98th General Assembly opening January 3. Dwight L. Matchette of Greenville was named Senate clerk amid a broader party effort to map strategy and set leadership for both houses.
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Columbus
Margaret A. Mahoney
Cleveland
Senate
98Th General Assembly
Dwight L. Matchette
Greenville
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Ohio General Assembly
Anna F. O'Neil
Youngstown
House
C. William O'Neil
Washington
Aginst Cantwell
James M. Carney
Ray M. White
Millersburg
Stephen A Zona
Roy E. Harmony
Sidney
Shelby County
Delbert Nixon
Stratton
Jefferson County
Howard M
Metzenbaum
William M. Boyd
Clingan Jackson
Dwight Matchette
Akron schools plan expansion to ease crowding
The Fairlawn school will gain a $100000 three room addition and several local high schools will receive $35000 in temporary additions. The board of education approved plans last night to relieve crowding pressures.
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Akron. O
Fairlawn
Board of Education
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